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Have you heard the news we had another star born in the crowd Yine heard the news Yuri and Marissa star who led and worship last way you we hear last week and we're Yuri led worship the pastor Thomas I'm been out Being his wife delivered their second star baby And I had another little boy and mom and baby are doing well Not only that one of our deacons George and Jennifer grubs had a little girl on Wednesday morning early in the wee hours Lily Lily came through the valley and they have a special story about their Lily in the valley and She she came to the world on Wednesday morning and then you know when Thomas leaves All these people in the worship department because Jennifer sings on our worship team very leads worship when he leaves and comes back I'm telling you things are happening in the worship department This morning this morning our business administrator his wife sings in the choir Had a little boy I'm telling you if you want to get pregnant get in the choir Your designoring another child it's a given I told my wife don't you get near the choir? You have to sit in the back row when they're in the building baby I'm glad to report all moms and babies are doing well, and we just rejoice with them I'm glad you hear this morning if you have your bibles open it up to two particular scriptures the first one We're going to look at it Romans chapter 8. That's the first scripture we'll look at And then if you have a little red stringy thing there Oh, you can take your bulletin once you return to a second scripture to be the last scripture we look at will be first feeder chapter 2 Romans 8 first feeder chapter 2 I Mean we're here last weekend heard past the markets preach on the ruling in rainy how to get heaven to earth I Mean oh when the big dogs out little dogs can do anything they want Well with the big dog down out marks and I decided we're gonna have our own little mini series So we got it one I want to talk to you about this this morning How do you get heaven to earth I Mean it a little heaven in your earthly matters I Know I do I've got some issues in my own household I've had them for the whole twenty six seven years that I've been saved I've had issues that I needed heaven to act on my behalf I'm going to show you a picture today of what you're supposed to look like And I'm going to give you step-by-step instructions of how to look like that I entitled this message when all else fails Read them directions All right be honest don't don't find don't miss one I may have ever tried to put that swing set together before reading the direction I Did it twice thought I was smart and most of you Yep, my children came out and they kept looking at the box and they looked at the swing set I'm not getting on that daddy a little hard-headed I just said I knew I could figure it out and I put it all together and thought and they kept looking on I'd take it all apart because I missed the very first step a key bar that had to be in there And it can't go in last had to go in first. I Find myself in the Christianity doing the same thing. I Try to figure this all out on myself by myself all of us and then when it fails When it's not looking like it should look I began to read the instruction So today I want to show you two things. I think the Holy Spirit dropped this in on me the last couple months I made three for an hour and a half. I'm sorry, you know, and you don't preach real often Every now you just well up to something and I've been sitting on this a while So if I just blow up up here use that you'll wipe it off and we'll go on. Okay I'm pretty excited about this word though. I Want to show you what you're supposed to look like and I want to show you step-by-step instructions If you will follow these instructions, these are not my instructions if you'll follow these instructions you will look like What you're supposed to look like if there were a picture on the outside of a Bible? That says this is what you're supposed to look like and then you open it up and say how do I look like that I? Promise you you'll be helped. All right Roman Zate are you there? Once you read the scripture with me Verse 11 it's the spirit of him now who is him You can talk back That's God if the spirit of God. All right. We're not talking about anybody other spirit than God spirit If the spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead Did you realize what this spirit has the power to do? Read it has the power to raise people from the dead is that right? Now if this spirit has the power to raise people from the dead Do you think the problems that you may have brought into the building today or a little bit under that? I Mean if you're alive the problems you're experiencing on earth are under resurrection of the dead is that true? Now my question to you this morning is did the spirit only have that power one time? Not not so because we saw many people raised from the dead the little boy fell out of the window Paul You know we pretty got a little long-winded Paul got long-wind boy fell out of it broke the neck died. He raised him up, right? How about dorkus and how would you like to have that name? Might have heard later a little bit. I don't know dorkus. That's not I just thought what was that mama thinking about that day? I mean my mama named me Jeffrey Allison And I went to my mom and I said mama what what were you thinking that day? I know you had to be on drugs. What were you thinking that day? She said honey? It was my best friend's last name I said mama. It's up girls name You know it's my best friend's last answer mama. They call me Alice all the way through high school What could you been thinking? So a little child up in the kid's class a couple weeks ago She's walking down the hall and I noticed her name was Allison and I said, well, that's a great name That's my main thing she goes I said, yeah really it no, it's not I said see mama. It's not working Doris is racing that it you see that this spirit has power the spirit of God has power to raise the dead How do you've ever seen about a racing bit anybody? I've been a video I'm gonna say something about this spirit today. What's this if the spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead Keyword if you have a pen underline it dwells in you Get that if the spirit of God understand who we're talking about as the power to raise the dead dwells in you He God who raised Christ from the dead will also give you something What will he give you? Why? I mean it a little like today. How you like a little life from heaven? Maybe in your marriage. Maybe in your finances. Maybe it's your job Maybe help raising teenagers. I had three teenagers in my house right now. I'm in little heaven Let me a little heaven more Lord. Send me a more heaven. I Need some more help. Talk to me. I need some wisdom here. I'm not how I talk to me You might need heaven in your body today Any sickness in heaven I saw my check there weren't none Any death and dying in heaven How do we get heaven to earth? I'm showing you right here I'm trying to give you a picture what you're supposed to look like if the spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you dwells in you dwells in you he who raised Christ from the dead will also give you the same life the same direction power and your mortal body through his spirit who dwells in you now listen anytime scripture We see so words you need to pay attention to that word that key word here is well Dwelling you how are you dwelling listen when Jesus came from heaven? He came from heaven to earth spent 33 years from the earth and went back to heaven the Holy Spirit was immediately sent 40 days later and he went into earth from heaven sent from God Who is in heaven if you need heaven today get the Holy Spirit. He's already you can get a deposit today in you from heaven He came from heaven. He's gonna return to heaven He's gonna take as many of us with him to heaven if you need heaven on earth get the Holy Spirit It's the key a whole thing this holds like can be boiled down to one key word dwell with him He's a pipeline to heaven. All you have to do is tap into him Jesus didn't know miracle until he had the Holy Spirit come on He was filled with the Holy Spirit and Luke chapter 4 led by the Spirit walked in the Spirit spoke with the Spirit said Had the power of the Spirit and then was unointed by the Spirit if Jesus needed a spirit how much more us Hear me. I'm trying to paint you a picture. We've got a direct pipeline into heaven He's here on earth. All you have to do is pack in as you're fitting into that You get that connection into your spirit and you tighten it down and you don't let go you'll have heaven Everywhere you go Listen folks, I'm very competitive. I don't like losing I don't want to lose I Lose a lot playing golf lately. I don't like it But I'm still working at it. You know what I hate more than that. I hate losing to the devil So I'm reading everything I can get my hands on I'm reading everything I get my hands on about people who won I Want to know about the people who won I want to read about the losers I want to read about the winners. I mean we never will not get my hand on Smith Well, it was worth John D. Lake and Charles price. These are men that came in and won You know why I know they want they look like the goddess should be on the front cover Jesus When I read about Smith's life I mean you go to Amazon calm just download Smith will were 45 books right there He didn't write on there one of them, but many people were so impressive. They wrote books about him all the three This man won what I like about his life. He got saved at eight at the age of 32 He didn't know how to read right. He wanted any special about him. He was a plumber But he had his life changed at the age of eight by the spirit of the living God and at the age of 32 He's a plumbing. He's working for the Lord everywhere. He goes these lean people of Christ. He's so impressed with what God's done It's like you can't get over it at the age of forty eight. He said I was filled with the Holy Spirit And I want to say you for thirty nine years So the age of eighty seven he turned the world upside down He's in one meeting And the man came in on crutches had no feet no feet He said tomorrow morning. I want you to go by shoes So I never bought you to go by tomorrow morning. You don't need them Okay, so he goes into this the shoe place the next morning hobbles down there on his crutches walked in They opened up the door. He's the first customer walking in says there was an little server guy came out I said what can I help you? I mean pair of shoes and say what size I? Don't know I never bought shoes before Did eight that sounds good. I like that number pair of eggs. He said what color Man, there's a lot of decisions in buying shoes. I've never faced before black ones bring them to me Man brought out pair of black shoes on lights and put them in there and he's watching he's like and it I've never done this before And this man took his crutches, but put the stock down into a shoe in a foot group He did a little gig. Hey, man. I'm gonna get that other shoe over here quickly He put it in a foot group that how can you get heaven to back you up on earth tap into the Holy Spirit? You tell you I'm gonna show you today. He will tell you things that are to come He will show you things now. Listen if you want to live a humdrum life, close your eyes and take you a little nap. I Don't want to live a humdrum life Smith Wiggles work died at the age of 87 When he was 72 He asked the Lord give me 15 more years I want 15 more years or no 15 years one week within the day they asked it 15 years later He went to do a man's dinner walked into the back of the best year of the church said hello to a couple of preachers He stumbled they caught him and he was gone One week within the 15 day or 15 years that he asked him from that day 87 listen, I have no desire to go to nursing home in Rock I'm a card player, but I don't want to play that much. I Don't have any desire to go my food to death. I'm not there. There's no retirement in my future When I'm done, I'm going home But until I'm done, I'm gonna work for the very last minute There's nothing in me that wants to quit. I Don't want to lose the devil and I'm finding out ways to quit losing for the devil I'm gonna show you this morning I'm trying to paint you a picture if you will tap into this source If you will tap into this channel if you'll tap into this pipeline to heaven You can have heaven on earth and I don't care what your circumstances are today You're looking at a man 10 years ago. She'll lost his marriage My wife was packing and I was excited. I Wanted her to go You're looking at a man which filled with anger and rage And I'll tell you something I sat in the Holy Spirit. He's set me free. I had had addictions and I'm free I'm finding out there's nothing the whole spirit can't be it's under resurrection. He's got the ability and I won't ever bit of it Smith was worth figuring it out. I'm gonna read about every winter. I'm fine because I'm not quitting until I see it I'm gonna see the dead race You can't stop me I'm the only one that can stop me As long as I tap into him. He's gonna raise the dead. It's his nature He's gonna touch lives. He's gonna see people say he's gonna do things. He's gonna heal marriage. He's gonna heal body He's gonna that's his nature. That's what's in heaven. He's trying to bring heaven to earth If you will tap into this if you'll get this dwelling part if you will dwell on this dwelling part It means then habit cohabit. It means to remain the spirit came on Jesus and look for and it's the first time in Scripture that he remains And that's the same spirit that wants to come on you and remain He doesn't just want to anoint you. He wants to fill you. He wants to feel you so full that your clothes will radiate his presence He wants to feel you so full your shadow has power in it This will work you to sit on the train riding from town to town where he is preaching people all set him down there And he didn't know anything reading his Bible not said a word all of a sudden that start weeping and say I need to know the Lord You convict me just by being in your presence anybody have said that to you You convict me by being in your presence That's the power of the Holy Spirit three steps to getting to look in this dwelling place three steps Three easy steps They go and seek with how many you know when you put things together step number one is normally meant to be step number one My rocket science they do that for a reason. I think it's to trick me most of the time But it really works if you'll obey the instructions Listen these aren't my instructions. I didn't create these. Okay. I Came from heaven I just want to point the instructions out standing Romans eight verse five look at this instruction number one You must find and keep heavens perspective. You must find and keep heavens perspective What's it Romans eight five says for those who live according to the flesh Set their minds on the things of the flesh but those who live according to the spirit set their minds on the things of spirit How many you see in that scripture? There's two choices. You can live according to the flash or you can live according to the spirit see two choices MIT three anybody know three The other other services they didn't need it. You guys are a little smart. I'm glad we're up to date Two choices you can live according to the flash or you can live according to the spirit What determines whether you live according to the flash or whether you live according to the spirit There's a little phrase in there that I want you to underline in your Bible set your mind You know nobody in the building has any more power of your mind except you no one can control what you think except you If you work heaven on earth, you were set number one. You're gonna have to set your mind You are gonna have to set your mind. I have to set my mind I can have heaven on earth if I will set my mind on what? It says right here on the things of the spirit Now I wonder what the spirit is thinking about Well, I'm gonna show you what a clock is back to three. You don't have to turn to be on the PowerPoint What's it clock is back to three? What is the setting your mind on the things of the spirit if then you were raised with Christ Remember that resurrection power we're talking about If then you were raised with Christ sounds like same thing We read in Romans 8 think those things which are above where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God set your mind on things above not on things of the earth Are you catching it? What are you thinking about? What are you dwelling on mentally? I tell you what you're dwelling on just listen to your mouth. It'll tell you If you want to know what you're thinking about just watch your mouth listen to it But it'll tell you what you're thinking about as a man think it's so busy What Proverbs said why does a man that ever lives on earth said that? As a man think it so is he set your mind on the things above now watch Jesus did Jesus ever lose? Did Jesus ever lose? Even when it looked like he was losing he won did he not I? Mean when they were crucified him devil said guiding he said don't gotten Just wait three days I'm gonna burn your best robe He looked like he lost, but he's still one fuck this Jesus in John chapter 5 verse 19 said that And Jesus man said to them most assuredly I say to you the son of man could do nothing of himself What he sees the father do but whatever the father does the son also doesn't like man Did you just say right there that Jesus has set his eyes on on the father and watch is what's about now? Where's the father? Last time I checked he was in heaven That right? You don't have to find and keep heaven's perspective and the way you do that is you set your mind and watching in the heavenly What's it first 30 Jesus said not only do I see him do things I can do nothing on myself as I hear I judge Did you just see a Jesus says I do nothing on myself as I see and as I hear where in heaven Where's your mind? We'll be set in your mind Watch the Holy Spirit. This is the one we're supposed to tap into the John 16 13. What's it? However when he the Holy Spirit the spirit of truth is calm. He will guide you. How many need a guy? It's offered if you want a guy the personal God he's here He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things to come. How would you like to know something coming before it gets there? Tap in to the pipeline to heaven He knows it all because he speaks what he hears He he speaks what he hears he speaks what he hears he speaks what he sees This is his nature. This is his life. This is what he's here to do Let me I had a woman come up last the week at the 11 o'clock service right here, and she said hey I've heard a rumor about you and I said really And I didn't know the woman she is I've never seen it before and she said yes I've heard I said which one we got out and I'm kind of nervous about it myself And she said well I heard that your wife had migraine headaches and that you prayed for and she got healed I've been now that rumor is true If you've heard any other ones, I can't vouch for those and She said well I have migraine headaches, and I want you to pray for me I said I'd be delighted to pray for you, but I need to ask you a question before I pray for you She said okay, what I said I can now where are you from first off? He said well we're from Houston We have family here and every time we come we love your church and every time we come up stay with him We come to church the second time to be here. We just love it. We'll glad have you and I said well Here's my question. What have you heard heaven say? She looked back. She said nothing I said well let me tell you why? When I prayed over my wife she was healed I'd already heard from heaven. I Already found heaven's perspective God and I'd already talked through the medium of the Holy Spirit through that channel I'd already tapped in and said something's wrong here and the Holy Spirit showed me what it was and when I prayed heaven backed me up She been free for 20 years I said let me tell you another story. I'm just encouraged this woman I want her to hear from heaven's tears to begin the bloodstream benefit. I said when our second daughter was born I Have three girls in the sun when our second daughter was born my wife delivered But our daughter's head and she her shoulders stuck in the bus come out Our midwife who delivered somewhere between three and four hundred babies didn't panic She can't work and stand working did kept working can't wait and finally at some point She turned to me and she she a spirit for a woman loves God all the heart She turned to me and said you better pray right now. I took it as a command. I fell flat on my face and I cried out that heaven and I heard as clear as I've ever heard from heaven before and I heard the Holy Spirit say stand up and command the baby to be loose now And I did and immediately she shot up And she's laying on the bed totally blue She was breathing She wasn't moving The midwife came over to daddy called her by name now I got to tell you something with my four kids all four of my kids when they were born. They almost looked identical They all had jet black hair. I was grinning They all went blonde. I don't know what happened My oldest Jessica When Joy Lynn was born She looked just like Jessica so when I was leaning over Joy Lynn and the midwife said to me call her by name I said Jessica Jessica And the midwife Elmo said once you try her name daddy I said I'm getting there. Just looks a lot like I was kind of excited in the month and the instant I spoke her name she cried The instant daddy spoke her name she cried If you won't have him to back you up hold some and say something I told that woman isn't just You won't have in the back you up. You better have a word from heaven Heaven will back you up You've got a finding key. You're gonna have to keep heaven's perspective everything doesn't happen instantaneously we like a preacher's like to tell you stories that happen instantaneously so you can go home and get something instantaneously Let me tell you some observations that I've made about heaven in the twenty six or seven years that I've known heaven Heaven's never in a hurry. I Mean Abraham got a word about twenty twenty five years later Isaac showed up Joseph got a word and seventeen years later through prison the word was fulfilled Jesus got calls in the ministry and come back to be here to be the Messiah in 30 years. He wasn't in a hurry Even when his mama said hey, hey, hey, we got problems here. They're running on the wine. They're about to be embarrassed The parties must be over. We need your help. He said not my time Why are you bother me? Not like he's in a big hurry get in the ministry doesn't it? Okay, if you're a young man a woman today and you call the ministry don't be in a hurry be in tune Don't be in a hurry be in tune If you've got something in your household that you're seeing that's not working out and you find a heavenly perspective Hold on to it. Don't give it up. Don't let the devil talk to you out of it You find heaven's perspective and you hold it. Do you see heaven on earth? That's your God-given right? He wants you to learn to rule and reign some of the tests that come are harder When you first get saved and you start giving your tithe God immediately black as I watch him do it all the time as you mature He makes the test a little harder so that you'll grow. You don't want you to be a want want all your life I've not found heaven to be in a hurry Second observation I make about heaven. There's no fear there Fear does not motivate heaven if you've got fear today. You need to get a heavenly perspective because heaven has no fear And the third observation I've made about heaven is it's all about Daddy It's all about Daddy Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life you walk through this door and I'll show you daddy The Holy Spirit says I want to illuminate Jesus and entice you to come to Jesus, so you'll walk through the door So he'll show you daddy. It's all about Danny You said I am not here. I'm nothing without him. He's greater. Why do you call me good teachers? No one good, but God that's Jesus You get a heaven perspective you can get it on anything Said yeah, but Jeff I can't hear from heaven like you you preachers or something special Yeah, right I'm in a preacher that long It's been a wonderful years and pharmaceutical. I heard God just as well as I do there and I do now I told drugs I'm just selling a different drug today You shoot it one time in your heart and it changes everything you don't have to repeat the process You need heaven perspective. Well, how do I hear heaven perspective? That's step number two I want to teach you how to hear heaven's perspective. Look at Luke 516. What's this verse right here? You've got to take time to renew your spirit. Jesus said this so Jesus himself often say the word often Withdraw into the wilderness and pray how many times did he do it? Often what's the look of the next verse and when he had sent the multiple to the way he went up on the mountain by himself to pray And when he even come he was there alone So I'm like Jesus first year about getting by himself to tap into this channel to tap into this pipeline to heaven, right? He had the Holy Spirit is that correct? Now every time Jesus did this I want you to know something if you go back and look at those scriptures up Now we put them in your your notes there You can take them home and do some further study when you go back and look at those scriptures What happens immediately following those figures if you want heaven to come to earth You're gonna have to learn to tap in the spirit You have to learn to get your spirit renewed be when Jesus did it immediately things happen soon as he walked in They want having white right out of he walking down the mountain came down and they dropped a boy through the roof And never walked before and the first time Jesus ever said not only can I heal your body off to give you sin I can do both at the same time That's we immediately have to get spirit with respect the second time the one I just read the imagine He came off the mountain and walked on the water to the boys in the boat. Anybody here have walked on water Me neither I should like to sound fun If the spirit that we talked about the resurrection Do you think you still have power over all the earth Jesus first big tree in the tree big tree with it Well, you think he did it he didn't the power of the spirit think he walked on the one he didn't the power of the spirit Folks, I'm telling you if you want to live a home drum life. It's okay. I don't want to Smith was worth died at age 87. They called the Cornaries office and the doctor came down and looked at him He had every tooth that he recently had perfect shape He looked at this man body and he said my gosh, what a specimen of a man So how old is he that said 87 he goes unbelievable. He didn't look at day past 50 believable Folks he found the secret you may not like his method you may not like the way he did it But he found the secret and that secret is dwelling with the Holy Spirit and the way you do that you set in your mind You set your mind on things about and you take time to get your spirit with that when they asked Nick Wiggles worth They said what's the secret to your power? He said I met a minister years ago an old guy. He's an old project He's spunky It was something about him every time you come into his presence there was an aura there was a there was an air of the presence of the Lord About him when I met him I asked him I said what is the secret man? There's a presence of God about you I want to know what the secret is and it's all fella said listen when I was a young man the Holy Spirit would speak to me I was too busy He persisted with me and he persisted with me and then when the whole spirit began to speak to me I start pulling away. I'd start drawing away from everything and everyone and I'd get along and I'd listen to what he said And when he said I obey He said today as an old car just all he has to do is waste about and I For that secret place Because there is a light There is the secret of the light. I Wonder what your calendar looks like? for the last year We got vacations the rest our bodies vacations the rest our minds are souls You ever take a vacation day just to spin with the spirit You know why The devil knows it to speak it to He didn't want you to do that If he recognizes if you get passed into this pipeline to heaven you'll turn heaven on earth and you'll turn earth upside down He's gonna do everything he can to distract your mind He's gonna do everything you can to distract your time and when he hears the spirit speaking He's gonna speak life to you. I'm gonna say something both. We've got to get this straight We've got to get ourselves straight to find out tap into the pipeline to heaven if you won't have an honor you got to tap in If we've had a favorite quote There it is If you want to know the secret there's a secret Give attention to life in clothes Outward service will dwindle if inward energies are not renewed read it again. Give attention to life inflows Outward service will dwindle if inward energies are not renewed One day Smith way was worth one - I did it many days on this particular day He went out on the street and he asked the Lord every day would you give me a soul? He was so interested in the souls of man He said listen if you're interested in healing that's great, but a healed man can go to hell Because it's not worth that he links not the issue the issue is your heart and being settled with heaven Healing is a part and Jesus you healing to draw crowds and tell them about daddy He links not the issue. Salvation is he'd ask him. He'd ask the Holy Spirit Give me somebody today. Give me somebody today and every season to a farmer He'd leave many people the Lord that he was fun, and they come in and say okay. You got something. We ain't got what you got I'm they all the time they ask him that and he would tell him this particular day He's standing on the street corner and he's saying Holy Spirit Give me a soul today Give me a soul today stand on the street corner and those fish that I'm going to stand right here So he wait he said the street was filled with people going left and right there all the time I'm gonna use I'll be back. They kept looking and get low and wait 30 minutes Nothing he waited another 30 minutes nothing said I thought you're gonna give me somebody that happened yesterday said just wait I'm gonna show you an hour and a half went by and All of a sudden a man in a buggy came by drawn by a horse. He said that's the cart jumping in tell him So he runs on he said it felt like the easy open where he climbed up in the cart with a fill up in the easy He climbed up in and he said hey, hey, can I ride with you? So yeah, come on up and he sat now he began to tell him about the Lord this man all of a sudden is world What are you doing? Why are you picking on me? This is I can't believe why do you get out of my car? And Smith was like he turned and said I thought you said this was a guy He said it is a guy He turned back to the man. He said oh spirit said you the guy. You're gonna get the most Within minutes the man was weeping Open his heart But I won't let you go Three weeks later Smith's mama called and said hey Smith, sir, you've been witnessing the mom and you know I've been with me To know that you witness to a man in a cart about three weeks ago Yes, mom, I did. How do you know about that? She's well, I was with him yesterday And I asked him because he's he's been terminally ill for five years I asked him if he wanted somebody to come and play with him And he said no that he had met a young man and he described and then when he described I knew it was he And he described how you got in the cart and how rough he was with you and how you persisted and you stay and you open the Windows of heaven of his heart and he said I don't need anybody to pray. I've already settled my account in heaven. I'm fine This myth I just wanted you to know He'd been terminally ill for five years and that's the only day he's been out in five years He died Folks and God hasn't happened in her heart There's got to be something that happens in our hearts about people the people in the salvation There's got to be something in our hearts. They'll be willing to wait an hour and a half on a street corner looking for one If we're gonna be heaven And heaven's gonna back us up. We're gonna have to tap into what's most important to heaven if people It's got to happen in our hearts if it doesn't happen in here how in the world will it happen out there? We have a hard time giving a minute and a half much less than an hour and a half Listen if you're caught up in the making a living stop Get caught up in the heavenly It's about daddy I wonder what heaven has an assignment for you today. I wonder what the assignment for heaven from heaven today for you Have you accepted the assignment? Did you wake up this morning and say heaven? I know you have an assignment you didn't leave me down here for nothing You left me here to work for you. What's your assignment today? Heaven has an assignment. Will you take it? My last point turn first feeder chapter two and I'll share this in quickly You want heaven to back you up You're gonna have to find your place under authority Step one and set your mind step two. You're going to renew your spirit and step three You're gonna have to find your place under authority Jesus said about one man only one man that I see in scripture. He said that he marveled He marveled at a man. He said it was a centurion the centurion had a servant who needed to be healed and Jesus said I marvel at this man's faith this man had a faith that he said he didn't see in all of Israel and This centurion made a statement back over in Luke I'm not gonna have you turn there, but I am gonna read the statement Luke seven and eight This is what Jesus said about this man's statement The centurion said to Jesus through a committee. He didn't even go himself, but this is what he said to Jesus I also am a man placed under authority The Jesus marvel at his faith because he made this statement Jesus marveled at his faith because he made this statement and this man understood something about authority that we as Americans don't like We don't like this word authority because we think it's binding. We think it's it's it's it's we think it's a change I'm telling you we're we're the land of the free, but we have to learn if you're gonna see heaven come to earth You're gonna have to learn to get in your place Jesus had a place look at that. I too am a man place under authority Jesus had accepted his place under authority He said you want to be commended before me? Do what's right? When they ask you to cook the book don't do it When they ask you to entertain people in places you shouldn't be entertaining say no You don't have to be mean about it. Just stand up for truth. Are you gonna be rejected? Absolutely. Are you gonna be reviled? Absolutely. Are you gonna be ridiculed? Absolutely get over your fear of rejection fear rejection is only worship of acceptance I'm only I'm already accepted by the king of kings the Lord of lords in the god of heaven. Who else will I need to be accepted by? Get over your fear of rejection You're gonna have to stand in the workplace and you're gonna have to stand there and take reviling and rejection It's the spirit of God that set you up because he wants heaven to come to earth He wants to demonstrate so people will be drawn and they can see daddy I'll show you I include it. Look at verse 21 for to this you were called Go ahead and just mark that out with your pen take your word call mark it out We don't like this I'm telling you scripture says we were called because Christ also service for us leaving us an example when he was reviled He didn't get reviled when he was threatened. He didn't threaten listen I'm gonna show you catch this quickly. We're done Shadrach knee-shacking have been to go with three boys who were advancing in their business like rapid the king likes them And these boys were moving up the ranks quickly and then they're boys around them got jealous They're gonna be jealous of you, too. Okay. Yeah, let's eat up the flesh We're gonna walk in the spirit these boys got jealous when they got jealous They said to the king hey those boys aren't bound down to your beautiful statue And hence them as you are and they're not bound down and and when the king came to him said why won't y'all bow before Insecting sick because it violates our conscience before God. We won't do it We are judged by higher judgment and we can't bow a king We like you we love our business. We love work, but we can't do it He said if you don't bow down. I'm gonna throw you into the fire. He said king. It doesn't matter what you do It violates our conscience You'd be at liberty to do whatever you think's necessary, but we can't He said I'm gonna heat the fire seven times hot. He said I don't care how hot you eat it It's under resurrection. We know our God resurrects They did the sunken boys in the fire and heaven backs them up You want heaven to back you up? Get your place under authority when they ask you to work harder than anybody else when they ask you to stand say no Daniel did it Paul and Phyllis did it heaven always backs him up Heaven will always back you if you get under place of authority and you the best employee at your company and you do what's right? But when they ask you to stand don't heaven will back you up Three months ago and I closed with it three months ago I was sitting here on the platform of Robert was preaching on the David and Bathsheba and Joab that whole story was David sinned with Bathsheba and it had Joab kill her husband. You're right And I was sitting here minding my own business and then all of a sudden I heard the Holy Spirit speak He said I want you to pay attention this was all right when he does I just I lean forward what? And he asked me this question. Why did Bathsheba not stand up to David and tell him no Why didn't she look at David and say if you're gonna touch this body is going to be by rate and if you rate me I'm gonna tell Why didn't Joab say to David if you want your riot bed hot rod come out here and killing yourself I'm not doing your dirty work Would there been wrath for it? Yeah, would there been some reviling for it? Oh, yeah There've been rejection over oh, yeah But you know what Joab and Bathsheba both miss and it's a golden opportunity to have heaven on earth Then it's a golden opportunity for heaven to invade their circumstances Do you want heaven? You want heaven on earth? Set your mind renew your spirit and find your place under authority and Heaven will back you up [BLANK_AUDIO]